Secret Knowledge — Season 1, Episode 19: Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet

Episode synopsis

Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death was immortalised by poets, painters and photographers.

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More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Kimbolton Cabinet
• E2The Art of the Vikings
• E3Bolsover Castle
• E4Walter Scott’s Castle
• E5Stradivarius and Me
• E7The Art of Witchcraft
• E8The Hidden Jewels of the Cheapside Hoard
• E9Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois - Women Without Secrets
• E10Castiglione - Rogue Genius of the Baroque
• E11Hogarth - One Man and His Pug
• E12The Russian Revolutionary: Zaha Hadid on Kazimir Malevich
• E13The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey